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CBOT March 2023 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
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U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans surge after USDA cuts 2022 harvest view

Brazil's CONAB projects big corn crop, record soy crop

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures rallied on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unexpectedly cut its 2022 harvest estimates for both crops, which would mean smaller-than-expected supplies. Wheat futures gained on spillover support from rising corn and soy. Traders largely shrugged off USDA’s larger-than-anticipated winter wheat crop acreage estimate
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Brazil chicken production and exports seen rising in 2023

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Reuters – Brazilian chicken processors including heavyweights JBS SA and BRF SA will collectively increase output and exports in the new year, projections from meat industry group ABPA showed. Brazilian companies will process up to 14.750 million tonnes of chicken meat in 2023, and are also poised to raise exports by up to 8.5 per
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna hits seven-year high

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Reuters – Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna rose to a seven-year high, government data showed recently, destroying a vital habitat for threatened species and releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Destruction of native vegetation rose 25 per cent to 10,689 square kilometres, an area larger than Lebanon. The data from space
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Drought hits Brazil corn in key southern state

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Reuters – A drought is compromising corn fields in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, which is now expected to produce 4.51 million tonnes of the cereal, according to a forecast by StoneX on Dec. 15. The revised output figure is less than a previously forecast 5.38 million tonnes of corn production for the state
ICE March 2023 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola trade’s focus on South America

Canola still entrenched in $800-$900 range

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MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts held relatively rangebound during the week ended Wednesday, looking for some direction to push values one way or the other. “We’re just watching South American weather now,” said Jaimie Wilton, commodities futures specialist with RJ O’Brien in Winnipeg, pointing to the drought in Argentina and the relatively favourable conditions
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Crops, Markets, Weather

CBOT weekly outlook: South America’s dry weather affecting soy complex

'We’re back to trading weather right now'

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MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report last week is taking a back seat to drought concerns in South America, according to a Chicago grains analyst. Terry Reilly from Futures International said Friday’s WASDE report had very little effect on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), which
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Markets, News

Brazil farmers plant 87 per cent of soybean area amid dryness

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Brazilian soybean planting reached 87 per cent of the estimated area in the 2022-23 cycle on Nov. 28 amid dryness in some centre-western farms that has growers concerned, according to agribusiness consultancy AgRural. Although sowing is slightly behind last season’s pace, Brazil is poised to harvest a bumper crop based on historical yield trends and
Brazil corn freight prices jump in wake of road blockades
Grain Markets, Markets, News

Brazil corn freight prices jump in wake of road blockades

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Reuters – Protests over Brazil’s election result that blocked roads in Mato Grosso state earlier this month lifted truck freight prices, affecting the operations and margins of global grain traders at a time when farmers are selling their abundant second corn crop. Truck freight rose 20 per cent (US$9.40) per tonne in Mato Grosso, said
A Panama-flagged bulk carrier, Ikaria Angel, leaves Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk with wheat for Ethiopia on Sept. 17, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Serhii Smolientsev)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Renewed agreement puts pressure on corn, wheat

Soy trade focused on Brazil's crop potential

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MarketsFarm — A renewed agreement between Russia and Ukraine to allow the latter’s grain to be shipped out of the Black Sea has recently been putting pressure on corn and wheat prices at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Russia and Ukraine, with mediation from the United Nations and Turkey, agreed Nov. 17 to an
File photo of a soybean plantation in Brazil. (Mailson Pignata/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Cordonnier stands pat on South American crop projections

La Nina 'is still out there,' analyst says

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MarketsFarm — At this point in the South American planting season it’s too early to get an accurate bead as to how much corn and soybeans will be grown in Brazil and Argentina, according to Dr. Michael Cordonnier of Soybean and Corn Advisor Inc. at Hinsdale, Ill. Cordonnier recently issued his latest estimates, keeping his

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